Nothing going on in the garden. I need to start the fall cleanup and get a spot prepped to set the garlic, but I've been concentrating my free time efforts on decorating the pond while it's still dry.
This one is for perspective. The tractor is 7' wide across the outside of the rear tires, and 9' high at the top of the cab. Since this was taken, the basin has been cut down another 5' where the tractor is setting.
Packing clay into the dam.
View from the back side.
This seep hole caused me a lot of grief during the latter stages of the work.
Pack, pack, and more pack.
#2 ex-Navy Son Clint helping out with the re-grading on the back side of the dam.
All closed up, working on the back side re-grade.
It's starting to look like something.
Nice and smooth. Since this was taken it's been seeded and mulched with hay.
My old Monark tri-hull. It used to catch fish, now it will be a place for them to hide. For perspective, it's 17' long and 6'6" abeam at the stern.
I spread 35 ton of 1.5" surface stone on the ledge to make a happy place for the panfish to bed. The deep cut is getting filled with cedar trees.
I've got 30-some cedar trees in so far. I'm hoping the weather holds long enough to get the right side of the dropoff filled with trees all the way to the ramp that goes down into the basin. After that all that's left to do is put down sand for the swimming beach and build the fishing dock. Nanner has returned every dime I paid for it and more on this project.
